What you guessed is right... it is written by a couple ! Allan Pease and Barbara Pease. They explains why we want to watch TV when she wants to talk and why she is complaining 'he is not listening'.
To quote Amazon
" men and women live in the same world, but they experience it as if they came from two different worlds. Boys like things, girls like people. Every boy wants to be in a gang, and wants a gun; every girl has her best friend, with whom she shares her secrets. Men want status and power, women want love. It's amazing, he concludes, that they can ever live together"

And big thanks to my sister for presenting this to me !



